2 a2 _ Castlegar News sept. s. 1986 Westar short of work By CasNews Staff * Westar Timber Ltd. has told four logging contractors in the Trout Lake area not to rely on the company for not receive work because Westar is three months behind in its logging plan for the area. Mrs. Sawezuk, who did not attend the meeting but year-round, full-time work, said Bob Korda, dl manager for Westar's Southern Wood Products sawmill in Castlegar Korda said Westar's area manager for Nakusp, Mark Mack, told contractors George Sawezuk, Fred Linden, Alf Chilton and Ernie Simmons two weeks ago at a meeting in Nakusp not to plan on steady assignments of work from Westar »Korda explained in a telephone interview that Westar had assigned to the local contractors work such as salvage operations in areas where trees had been blown down and other “sensitive situations.” But the company currently does not have enough of that type of work to provide steady employment for the contractors, Korda said. ’ “The message we tried to get across was that we would give them that work when it is available but we couldn't guarantee full-time work,” Korda said. Thelma Sawezuk, a major shareholder in the company run by her husband George, said he and the other contractors were told by Mack that the contractors would Ss ARAN the with her husband, said Mack told the contractors Westar would need three months to bring its plan up to date. But Korda said the problem is not that the company is behind in its planning. He explained that the British Columbia Forest Service has asked Westar to follow more closely, i for ding its logging plan. The amendments are necessary when awarding work to local contractors. Korda said following stricter procedures will add three months to processing amendments to its plan. Korda downplayed an article in the Arrow Lakes News that said the contractors are caught in a dispyte between Westar and the Forest Service. Simmons, one of the four contractors at the meeting, also did not seem too concerned about the issue in a telephone interview. He said nothing definite had been settled at the meeting and sounded hopeful that Westar will continue to have work for the contractors. “It's not that definite,” ment. he said of Westar’s announce- “They've got to have contractors.” BACK TO SCHOOL continued from front poge Good news for parents, teachers and principals, Wayling said, is the imminent hiring of two school aides to help students who have problems in class. The child care workers, for whom the district is now advertising, will be lay people who have “skill and expertise” with problem children, Wayling said. He said each worker will be available five hours a day and will “hopefully be on staff next week.” Although the improvements to the district's education programs this year are good news, they came at a price In June, the board voted to close Blueberry Creek, _ Pass Creek, Ootischenia and Shoreacres elementary schools in order to reallocate to other programs about $150,000 in operating costs from those schools. It was, Wayling said, “a tremendously sad event.” “That was avery difficult experience but we felt we had to do it.” The board-said closing the schools would benefit of the majority of the district's students. Hence the new and reinstated programs this year. Closing the schools will also allow the board to operate the district this year with about eight fewer full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers than last year. A ot The district will be going with 125.55 FTE teachers in 1986-87 compared with 134 FTE teachers last year. (The fractional figure this year results from part-time teachers.) Retirements and leaves of absence account for the reduction in teaching staff. There were no layoffs. Wayling said Excellence in Education funds from the provincial government will result in further improve- ments to the district's programs. However, he said the board is still waiting to hear if the $1.3 million it requested from the fund Will be approved Wayling noted that board chairman Kay Johnson told Premier Bill Vander Zalm when he visited Castlegar in August that the district has not received the funds. “We hope he took the message back with him,” Wayling said. He said some of the projects planned with the money — such as extension and upgrading of the district's and pr prog teachers — will be delayed by the government's foot- dragging. but that the delay is “not critical.” Wayling said the projects planned with the funds are of the type that can be implemented at any time during the year. for AUTO DEALERSHIP FOR SALE FRANCHISE — LOCATION — — Vewcowver Island VOLUME — 350 New Per Yea FACILITIES.— New Building in Excellent location Buy or Lease. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT MR. R. ROCHON OR MR. C. FORREST 625 Frances Avenue Victoria, B.C. 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Work is well under way on the $800,000 renovation to the 35-year- old school’s gymnasium and activity room CosMews photo by Simon Birch INQUIRY VETOED continued from front page e if there was evidence that legis lation had been breached: e if directors and/or management staff had failed to consider and act upon members’ criticisms as expressed at annual general meetings; or © if misrepresentation of risk had occurred. McGauley said she considers the first and third criteria definitely occurred and that there is some evidence supporting the second criterion. She said Veitch’s statement that he can't inquire into a cooperative that no longer exists is “nonsense” and leaves a large loophole for less-than-reputable businesses. “A shady business could quit doing business and not have to answer for it,” McGauley said She added that Veitch differentiated betweén members and depositors in assessing the petition, which contained 5,080 signatures. McGauley said a depositor in the TIHC was not necessarily a member. A petition requesting an inquiry needs the signatures of 10 per cent of a co-op’s members. “Some signatures weren't acceptable (to Veitch),” she said As for the cost of the inquiry, which McGauley said Veitch estimated at $100,000 to $150,000, she pointed out that some of the co-op's depositors had invested that much money in TIHC. She agreed an inquiry would be expensive but she noted that the co-op's depositors stand to lose at least 26 per cent of their $268 million. “Twenty-six per cent of more than a quarter of a billion dollars is a lot of money,” McGauley said. She added that the co-op's depositors never said there was fraud involved in the failure, “just a lot of questions with no answers to them.” In July, the co-op merged with CanWest Financial Corp. of Winnipeg. Under the merger, about $200 million of the co-op’s assets are being trans. ferred to CanWest's subsidiary Dis. covery Trust and associated com panies According to the terms of the merger, the former co-op's depositors will receive about 74 cents for every dollar invested However, McGauley said that amount is an optimistic prediction. “For sure we've lost 26 per cent. We know we're going to lose more.” she said DEMERS continued trom front poge requests for therapeutic abortions, decided the only way to stop. the “unjustified killings” was to destroy the equipment Entering the hospital's deserted operating room on a Sunday, Demers removed the equipment and rendered it inoperative. He then returned to the hospital and asked a nurse to call the police. Demers’ lawyer, Brent Adair, cited Section 27 of the Criminal Code, which says a person is justified in using as much force as necessary to prevent the commission of an offence. He stressed that th® section also says reasonable force may be used to prevent anything being done that, on reasonable and probable grounds he believes would, if it were done. be an offence. When Adair said Demers believed the bospital abortion committee, by rubber-stamping applications, was committing an offence, Chief Justice Nathan Nemetz said persons who object to certain procedures cannot take the law into their own hands. If that were so, the judge continued, persons who object to blood trans fusions on religious grounds could walk into a hospital and destroy blood supplies or equipment “A lot of people are opposed to abortion but if they are going to fight it there is a way of fighting it and that is to have’ the legislation changed,” the chief justice added As well as Demers appeal against conviction, the court upheld his suspended sentence and the order requiring him to make restitu tion of $2,202 to the hospital. dismissing Premier calls in judge VANCOUVER (CP) Justice Henry Hutcheon of the British Columbia Court of Appeal has been appointed by Premier Bill Vander Zalm to watch over the negotia tions between the forest industry and the Inter national Woodworkers of America Vander Zalm said Hutch eon is not a mediator, and his role will be limited to acting as chairman at negotiating sessions and trying to sustain bargaining momentum “Certainly I would see no point in the two parties meeting unless there was somebody to convene the meetings, to adjourn the meetings, to bring them back and to keep it rolling,” said would After ® ® ® e e © ® @ @ Vander Zalm said The premier added that he expects negotiations to re sume as early as today Representatives sides, after meeting Vander Zalm earlier Tuesday, they sumption resolve the tracting-out issue, tice of operators giving work to outside, companies Premier Bill Vander Zalm had summoned Jack Munro, president of the International Woodworkers and Keith Bennett, chief of Forest Industrial Relations, to his Vancouver office. separate meetings the. two sides appeared no ©2020000082 €2800080803068 MONEY MACHINE 0000000 00080000 province, and of both had didn’t think re of negotiations con the prac vention. Although companies tion outright often non-union risk risk — of any making a that in effect of America, closer to ending the six week old strike which has 20,000 woodworkers in the both seemed to feel there was no room for third-party MEDIATION NIXED the union was studying the proposal, the rejected media “We don't want to run the and it is a significant third party recommendation is the IWA language. We won't run that risk,” Bennett said Munro also insisted the union will’ not bend. “I tried to convince the premier that this is not an ordinary dispute where somebody is offering $1 and somebody is offering 80 cents and there is a sawoff of 90 cents,” the IWA boss said “This isn't something that you can saw off in between Either we win and have job security or we lose and the employer caf do whatever the hell he wants with us.” The union wants a clause that will protect IWA jobs by not allowing the forest com panies to contract out work to non-union firms. Munro said Vander Zalm had a good knowledge of the issues but the only reason that the. union attended the meeting was out of respect for the premier's office Bennett, while playing down any significance to a resumption ‘of negotiations, said it is the only way the two parties can settle the dispute idled sides inter resolve this Jack Munro “We can't problem by sitting in his office and me in mine and running newspaper and radio ads.” © & e& ® © OFFICE AID © ® @ @ Protessignot Services ping Accounting Consulting 218 - 11th Avenue 365-6658 24 hour call so News TREET TALK GRAHAM READ is no longer with Tarrys Wood. craft Ltd. in Thrums. Read has started his own wood. working business — called 'G and G Woodwork — from a shop at his home in Blue- berry Creek Read said he will con’ tinue the same kind of work he did at Tarry.s namely custom woodwork for furniture, doors and windows as well as reno vations to €éxisting win- dows. . own business THE REGIONAL District of Central Kootenay’s planning manager, Don Harasym. has been chosen the first winner of the Jeff McKelvey Scholarship. The scholarship, which carries with it a $360 cash prize, is awarded in the name of the retired Union of B.C. Municipalities executive director. A NEW restaurant has opened in Nelson's Chahko Mika Mall. It's call Prospect Inn II and is owned by Sandy and Rick Vincent. The restaurant specializes in Mexican food and says proudly that everything is homemade. THE NEW boulevards at the Community Complex are looking good. They have been planted with grass — which is starting to come in nicely — and trees. ‘The city plans to pave the parking lot next year which should make the area really inviting. ANOTHER 12.000 hectares of recreation area will be added to Elk Lakes Provincial Park in the Elk Valley north of Sparwood. In addition to lakes and streams noted for their fishing potential, the area has abundant wildlife. The province plans to spend some $240,000 improving road access and camping facilities. IF YOU'VE been wondering just how popular the new Coquihalla highway is, the provincial government says nearly 500,000 vehicles have passes through the toll booth since the highway opened three months ago. That has added nearly $4.3 million into the province's coffers — all money collected from the toll on the highway. FOR BELUSHI DEATH Smith gets three years LOS ANGERES (AP) — Cathy Evelyn $mith, a rock backup singer! formerly of Toronto, has started to serve a three-year prison sentence imposed by a California judge who rejected a plea for treatment and probation for the woman who injected comedian John Belushi with a fatal dose of drugs. Defence lawyer Howard Weitzman suggested during sentencing Tuesday that Be lushi would not approve of the sentence. “I believe if John Belushi were standing right here today and looked at your honor, he would say. ‘Wait a minute judge. I lived my life as I wanted to live it Don't blame her. She did what I wanted her to do. ~ Superior Court Judge David Horwitz said it was clear to him that Belushi was responsible for his death “His decision to live a drug-infested life led to his own death,” he said However, Horwitz that did not absolve said Smith, JOHN BELUSHI . in Blues Brothers who injected a fatal dose of cocaine and heroin in Belushi. “You were the source of the poison,” he said. “You knew how to use the needle.” Belushi, 33, died March.5, 1982, in a rented bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel above Sunset Boulevard. The death of the star of tele vision’s Saturday Night Live and such movies as Animal House, Continental Divide and The Blues Brothers was attributed to cocaine. The judge. who could have imposed a maximum sen tence of eight years, eight months, chose the three-year sentence recommended by the prosecution. Smith must serve 1'/2 years before she is eligible for parole. She was sage heroin and er sister, death, Pamela Jacklin, told the judge: “Cathy Smith has been sending a message to kids throughout this coun- try since my brother-in-law’s that the way to be with it, to be with celebrities and rock stars, is to do drugs. This is a dangerous mes- hat make the 9. QQ taken into custody at the conclusion of the hearing to begin serving her sentence. Weitzman, who admitted Smith has had a recurrence of her drug problem in recent months, told reporters she has been drug-free for 45 days and lives at a drug treatment facility He argued in vain for pro-° bation and drug treatment rather than a prison term. Belushi's family was in the court. They had appealed ‘to the judge to put Smith behind bars as a lesson to youngsters who might be tempted by drugs. Judy Belushi, the comedian's widow, declined to speak at the hearing. But Smith, 39, was questioned immediately after Belushi's death, but released. 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The Public Service Board said it will hold discussion on the matter with the Aus trailian Council of Trade Unions next month Peter Wilenski, chairman of the Public Service Board, told "gener the govern ment ants an immediate smoking ban in official meeting and training rooms and other specified areas — Daily Flight Service to * Penticton * Kelowna 365-7701 Names in the news politican in Bob Rae The Ontario New cratic Party leader and his family spent the Labor Day weekend on Richard Pin sonneault’s dairy farm, just outside of Stony Poiny, 40 kilometres west of Win: Ont Demo. dsor. e milked cows, drove a high-tech tractor, and was up at 6:30 a.m. to help with the chores. He also showed his three daughters where corn comes from But still. polities was at the forefront During a barbecue Satur day, Rae met with the Pin sonneaylt’s friends and neighbors and listened to their problems. 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